These days, more and more focus is on the dispute between Hang Zhou Wahaha Group Co., Ltd.(herein after refer to as “Wahaha”) and Danone China
(herein after refer to as “Danone”). The two companies have cooperated with each other for 10 years. Now the biggest dispute between them is the trademark named “娃哈哈”. Both parties want to get the ownership of the trademark and prevent the other from using it. Wahaha believes to be the first one to apply this trademark and therefore has the ownership of the trademark, while Danone claims that it is the rightful user of the trademark due to a license agreement entered into by both parties. But the fact is that at first, both parties have signed a trademark transfer agreement, but when they send it to Trademark Office of P.R.C. for registration, the Office did not give any written reply (regardless if approved or dismissed). However, both parties did also sign two separate trademark license agreements, one that was sent for record in Trademark Office of P.R.C. and the other was kept by the parties. So this brings the conflict between both parties now. Danone has brought this issue before the arbitration court in Stockholm
, Sweden
and a suit in USA
, and at the same time, Wahaha brought the case before arbitration court in Hang Zhou, P.R.C.